Saturday, August 18, 2007
Work is fungible
Well, no, it isn't, but it seemed like an amusing thing to say. And
sometimes it sort of is. Wouldn't it be cool if people swapped jobs
for a day at random? You'd pretty much have to be either a cog or
-supremely- organized to let someone just step into your job at
random, though, and I am a wee bit more than a cog and a whole lot
less than being organized. If only cog-hood paid better!
sometimes it sort of is. Wouldn't it be cool if people swapped jobs
for a day at random? You'd pretty much have to be either a cog or
-supremely- organized to let someone just step into your job at
random, though, and I am a wee bit more than a cog and a whole lot
less than being organized. If only cog-hood paid better!
A woman in a budget meeting this week at work used the word
'fungible' - twice! - and the second time she paused and said
parenthetically "I love that word!" That was the highlight of the
meeting for me. Hell, that was the highlight of the workweek for me.
Well, except for the Friday afternoon moment when we had a power
outage of about 3 seconds that crashed all the computers and a guy
sharing my office (about a half-day per week, just enough for
occasional company, not enough to be annoying), was wailing and
gnashing his teeth at the 'paragraphs' of writing he'd lost, and it
turned out to have been autosaved and he said "This makes me briefly
love Microsoft products." That was such a great line!
